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2024 T20 World Cup
Just over a week away now from some glorious six-hitting in the cricketing heartlands of Barbados, Trinidad, Saint Lucia and, um, New York City.
England are defending the crown they won at the MCG in front of 80,000 people in November 2022. They'll probably be hoping it goes a bit better than their defence of the 50 over title! The tournament is, as T20 competitions are, very wide open. If England were to win it again they'd be the first men's team to win back to back World T20 titles in the history of the competition.
Chasing them keenly are the bookmakers favourites India, who are very, very thirsty because of a drought that has existed since 2013 in ICC tournaments. Australia will obviously be there or thereabouts, and there's plenty of excitement around the West Indies, twice winners of this competition, and how glorious it would be to see them lift a trophy at home.
Or perhaps South Africa will finally stop being Tottenham and actually win something? But it's T20. So it could be anyone. Ireland, Scotland, Uganda....USA?
I thought the format of the last couple of T20 World Cups was absolutely perfect. Naturally, then, the ICC have altered it for this year! So we've now got 20 teams, up from 16, and 55 matches in total, up from 45.
There's no preliminary round this time. All teams start off the same. Four groups of five teams. All play each other once. Top two in each group go through to the Super 8s. Super 8s is split into two groups of four. No points are carried over and all teams play each other once in the Super 8s. Top two in each Super 8 group go through to the semi-finals, from which it's a straight knockout. Means a team will play nine games if they are to lift the trophy, in comparison to England's seven games to win it in 2022.
One curious thing about the format, and the ICC love curious things (such as there being no reserve day for one semi-final), is that the finishing places in the initial group are seeded. For example, England are designated B1 in their group, and Australia are B2, which means that it's irrelevant if England come first or second. They will go through to Group 2 of the Super 8s regardless of finishing first or second. I suppose it guarantees certainty for fans, as they know where teams are playing after the initial group stage.
While I don't think it's been directly said, the draw was not a fair and open one. It took place behind closed doors and ensured India/Pakistan were in the same group, as well as some other long-standing rivalries, such as USA v Canada. I'm surprised the ICC didn't put India and Pakistan in the same Super 8 group as well! The groups are:
- Groups:
- Group A: Canada, India (A1), Ireland, Pakistan (A2), USA
Group B: Australia (B2), England (B1), Namibia, Oman, Scotland
Group C: Afghanistan, New Zealand (C1), Papua New Guinea, Uganda, West Indies (C2)
Group D: Bangladesh, Nepal, Netherlands, South Africa (D1), Sri Lanka (D2)
Super 8s
Group 1: India, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka
Group 2: Pakistan, England, West Indies, South Africa (presuming all goes to plan and no upsets happen!)
Another note: India will be playing in the second semi-final if they get there, because of TV times
The fixture list is all over the place with timings, so try and keep up! If you're in the UK, games can start at 01:30, or they might begin at 18:00, and quite a few matches seem to overlap in the early stages.
- Fixture List (All times BST):
- Sunday June 2
USA vs Canada - Grand Prairie, Texas (1.30am)
West Indies vs Papua New Guinea - Providence, Guyana (3.30pm)
Monday June 3
Namibia vs Oman - Bridgetown, Barbados (1.30am)
Sri Lanka vs South Africa - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Tuesday June 4
Afghanistan vs Uganda - Providence, Guyana (1.30am)
England vs Scotland - Bridgetown, Barbados (3.30pm)
Netherlands vs Nepal - Grand Prairie, Texas (4.30pm)
Wednesday June 5
India vs Ireland - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Thursday June 6
Papua New Guinea vs Uganda - Providence, Guyana (12.30am)
Australia vs Oman - Bridgetown, Barbados (1.30am)
USA vs Pakistan - Grand Prairie, Texas (4.30pm)
Namibia vs Scotland - Bridgetown, Barbados (8pm)
Friday June 7
Canada vs Ireland - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Saturday June 8
New Zealand vs Afghanistan - Providence, Guyana (12.30am)
Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh - Grand Prairie, Texas (1.30am)
Netherlands vs South Africa - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Australia vs England - Bridgetown, Barbados (6pm)
Sunday June 9
West Indies vs Uganda - Providence, Guyana (1.30am)
India vs Pakistan - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Oman vs Scotland - North Sound, Antigua (6pm)
Monday June 10
South Africa vs Bangladesh - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Tuesday June 11
Pakistan vs Canada - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Wednesday June 12
Sri Lanka vs Nepal - Lauderhill, Florida (12.30am)
Australia vs Namibia - North Sound, Antigua (1.30am)
USA vs India - Long Island, New York (3.30pm)
Thursday June 13
West Indies vs New Zealand - Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago (1.30am)
Bangladesh vs Netherlands - Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (3.30pm)
England vs Oman - North Sound, Antigua (8pm)
Friday June 14
Afghanistan vs Papua New Guinea - Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago (1.30am)
USA vs Ireland - Lauderhill, Florida (3.30pm)
Saturday June 15
South Africa vs Nepal - Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (12.30am)
New Zealand vs Uganda - Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago (1.30am)
India vs Canada - Lauderhill, Florida (3.30pm)
Namibia vs England - North Sound, Antigua (6pm)
Sunday June 16
Australia vs Scotland - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (1.30am)
Pakistan vs Ireland - Lauderhill, Florida (3.30pm)
Monday June 17
Bangladesh vs Nepal - Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (12.30am)
Sri Lanka vs Netherlands - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (1.30am)
New Zealand vs Papua New Guinea - Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago (3.30pm)
Tuesday June 18
West Indies vs Afghanistan - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (1.30am)
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Wednesday June 19
A2 vs D1 - North Sound, Antigua (3.30pm)
Thursday June 20
B1 vs C2 - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (1.30am)
C1 vs A1 - Bridgetown, Barbados (3.30pm)
Friday June 21
B2 vs D2 - North Sound, Antigua (1.30am)
B1 vs D1 - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (3.30pm)
Saturday June 22
A2 vs C2 - Bridgetown, Barbados (1.30am)
A1 vs D2 - North Sound, Antigua (3.30pm)
Sunday June 23
C1 vs B2 - Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1.30am)
A2 vs B1 - Bridgetown, Barbados (3.30pm)
Monday June 24
C2 vs D1 - North Sound, Antigua (1.30am)
B2 vs A1 - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (3.30pm)
Tuesday June 25
C1 vs D2 - Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1.30am)
Knockout stages
Thursday June 27
Semi-final #1 - Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago (1.30am)
Semi-final #2 - Providence, Guyana (3.30pm)
Saturday June 29
Final - Bridgetown, Barbados (3.30pm)
- Squads (Not yet finalised):
- Group A
Canada
Saad Bin Zafar (captain), Aaron Johnson, Dilon Heyliger, Dilpreet Bajwa, Harsh Thaker, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Pargat Singh, Ravinderpal Singh, Rayyankhan Pathan, Shreyas Movva.
Reserves: Tajinder Singh, Aaditya Varadharajan, Ammar Khalid, Jatinder Matharu, Parveen Kumar.
India
Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan.
Ireland
Paul Stirling (captain), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young.
Pakistan
Yet to be announced
United States
Monank Patel (captain), Aaron Jones, Steven Taylor, Corey Anderson, Saurabh Netravalkar, Jessy Singh, Harmeet Singh, Nosthush Kenjige, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Nitish Kumar, Andries Gous, Shayan Jahangir, Ali Khan, Nisarg Patel, Milind Kumar.
Reserves: Gajanand Singh, Juanoy Drysdale, Yasir Mohammad.
Group B
Australia
Mitchell Marsh (captain), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa.
Reserves: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Matt Short.
England
Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, Mark Wood.
Namibia
Gerhard Erasmus (captain), Zane Green, Michael Van Lingen, Dylan Leicher, Ruben Trumpelmann, Jack Brassell, Ben Shikongo, Tangeni Lungameni, Niko Davin, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, JP Kotze, David Wiese, Bernard Scholtz, Malan Kruger, PD Blignaut.
Oman
Aqib Ilyas (captain), Zeeshan Maqsood, Kashyap Prajapati, Pratik Athavale, Ayaan Khan, Shoaib Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Naseem Khushi, Mehran Khan, Bilal Khan, Rafiullah, Kaleemullah, Fayyaz Butt, Shakeel Ahmad.
Reserves: Jatinder Singh, Samay Shrivastava, Sufyan Mehmood, Jay Odedra.
Scotland
Richie Berrington (captain), Matthew Cross, Brad Currie, Chris Greaves, Oli Hairs, Jack Jarvis, Michael Jones, Michael Leask, Brandon McMullen, George Munsey, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Charlie Tear, Mark Watt, Brad Wheal.
Group C
Afghanistan
Rashid Khan (captain), Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohammad Ishaq, Karim Janat, Nangyal Kharoti, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ibrahim Zadran, Najibullah Zadran.
Reserves: Sediq Atal, Hazratullah Zazai, Saleem Safi.
New Zealand
Kane Williamson (captain), Finn Allen, Trent Boult, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee.
Reserve: Ben Sears.
Papua New Guinea
Assadollah Vala (captain), CJ Amini, Alei Nao, Chad Soper, Hila Vare, Hiri Hiri, Jack Gardner, John Kariko, Kabua Vagi Morea, Kipling Doriga, Lega Siaka, Norman Vanua, Sema Kamea, Sese Bau, Tony Ura.
Uganda
Brian Masaba (captain), Simon Ssesazi, Roger Mukasa, Cosmas Kyewuta, Dinesh Nakrani, Fred Achelam, Kenneth Waiswa, Alpesh Ramjani, Frank Nsubuga, Henry Ssenyondo, Bilal Hassun, Robinson Obuya, Riazat Ali Shah, Juma Miyaji, Ronak Patel.
Reserves: Innocent Mwebaze, Ronald Lutaaya
West Indies
Rovman Powell (captain), Alzarri Joseph, Johnson Charles, Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Akeal Hossain, Shamar Joseph, Brandon King, Gudakesh Motie, Nicholas Pooran, Andre Russell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd.
Group D
Bangladesh
Najmul Hossain Shanto (captain), Taskin Ahmed, Litton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Shakib Al Hasan, Tawhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali Anik, Tanvir Islam, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Tanzim Hasan Sakib.
Reserves: Afif Hossain, Hasan Mahmud.
Nepal
Rohit Paudel (captain), Aasif Sheikh, Anil Kumar Sah, Kushal Bhurtel, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Lalit Rajbanshi, Karan KC, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Pratis GC, Sundeep Jora, Abinash Bohara, Sagar Dhakal, Kamal Singh Airee.
Netherlands
Scott Edwards (captain), Aryan Dutt, Bas de Leede, Daniel Doram, Fred Klaassen, Logan van Beek, Max O’Dowd, Michael Levitt, Paul van Meekeren, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, Tim Pringle, Vikram Singh, Viv Kingma, Wesley Barresi.
Reserve: Kyle Klein
South Africa
Aiden Markram (captain), Ottniel Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Quinton de Kock, Bjorn Fortuin, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs.
Reserves: Nandre Burger and Lungi Ngidi.
Sri Lanka
Wanindu Hasaranga (captain), Charith Asalanka (vc), Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Kamindu Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Dhananjaya De Silva, Maheesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellalage, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Thushara, Matheesha Pathirana, and Dilshan Madushanka
Reserves: Asitha Fernando, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, and Janith Liyanage.
- Outright Odds (Bet365):
- India 11/4; Australia 7/2; England 9/2; South Africa 6/1; West Indies 9/1; New Zealand 10/1; Pakistan 12/1; Afghanistan 33/1; Sri Lanka 33/1; Bangladesh 80/1; Ireland 200/1; Netherlands 250/1; Namibia 400/1; PNG 500/1; Scotland 500/1; USA 750/1; Nepal 1000/1; Oman 1000/1; Canada 1000/1; Uganda 1500/1.
The USA and Canada will be starting this one off in Texas. That's the most unlikely cricket sentence ever uttered.
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Also means England can't bowl Wood or Archer. Limited to Jordan and spin.
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If the rain holds off, England need 109 from 10 overs to win via DLS
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109 for England to get? But covers being dragged on again.
Probably going to be abandoned, barely any time left before the cut off.
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Bit more pressure on England's next game against Australia now.
Netherlands cruising against Nepal in the other match.
India/Ireland tomorrow in NYC, on what could be another tricky batting pitch.
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England will persist with Jordan but in all honesty (as good as he has been in the past) he is well past it.
Great time to schedule a CWC during the rain season...
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eirebilly_01 wrote:Savage for Scotland, almost a certain win taken away by weather.
They had a great chance, but to call it "almost a certain win" with England's strong batting lineup and short boundaries is just untrue.
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Marky wrote:eirebilly_01 wrote:Savage for Scotland, almost a certain win taken away by weather.
They had a great chance, but to call it "almost a certain win" with England's strong batting lineup and short boundaries is just untrue.
Not on this track with the weather its not... Scotland have a very good bowling attack and an England victory was surely not possible given what would be required under DLS
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I'd have expected England to chase 11 RPO in a shortened game given their power and depth.
I'm on a WhatsApp chat with my old Edinburgh club side, general feeling there is that England were narrow favourites after Jordan and Dilly just pulled it back in the final 2 overs.
As an aside, this is a morning game in Bridgetown. It feels silly that it's being called before 3pm local time. Ho hum.
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Anyway, I'm off to the PNG vs Uganda thread now to make my prediction and put a few quid on it
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VTR wrote:Yeah, probably best to say a good and maybe unexpected chance of a win, but far from definite. 11 runs per over with all wickets in hand would not overly worry most T20 teams
Anyway, I'm off to the PNG vs Uganda thread now to make my prediction and put a few quid on it
Yeah again. England went at more than 10 an over five days ago at a bigger Oval ground to comfortably beat Pakistan by 7 wickets with four and a half overs to spare. That doesn't mean England would have done very similar today and won but it certainly shows it would have been possible and, were I to be a betting man, that's on whom my money would have been.
Btw, my instinct / gut feel / whatever you want to call it was that DLS favoured England in upping their target by only 18 runs. I expected more.
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OK they probably (probably !) would have chased it down. But is all hypothetical now ; and whatever else is said , going for 90 off 10 with no wickets is hardly the start they'd have wanted from the bowling group (weather obviously a big mitigating factor ; but still...)
Speaking of weather : seems to be a bit of rain around one or two places . Bit early to fuss too much about possibilities ; but if there were more washouts costing the seeded teams , the loser of England /Australia might be in a spot of trouble...Hopefully the rest of the group stage gets better conditions for cricket. With this making three of the last five England white ball games lost to the rain gods , they're surely due some dry days !
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1/ England would only have had 3 overs of the PP
2/ Scotland's bowlers are not as bad as people think
3/ The ground was would have been wet making the ball wet
4/ The pitch was very uneven
To get 109 in 60 in those conditions would have been extremely hard for any side, not just England.
As I said above, the continual picking of Jordan astounds me. Once a great player and incredible asset to England but is no longer up to this standard, it happens to every player. The decision to bowl him in the 6th over was poor for me.
I still believe that this is a very unbalanced squad.
Anyways, on to the mighty Ireland today to cause a major upset against India
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Duty281 wrote:Would have still favoured England in the chase, to be honest. Such tiny boundaries at this ground, one of the sixes was just 61m, and England have brutal hitters.
A mishit for those guys these days - annoying as an England fan to have a win washed out against a minnow, puts us on the back foot now.
I thought it was meant to be sunny in the Caribbean!
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I'm not a fan of DLS in either 20 or 50 over cricket, but especially not 20 over cricket. I'd do away with DLS entirely in both formats and if a game gets rained off then it gets rained off, though perhaps more reserve days could be factored in e.g. why can't England and Scotland try and complete the game today?
I'm fine with Jordan's selection. He had a very good franchise winter, though should be remembered he's likely in the squad because Overton is injured and Woakes is on bereavement leave (this is why he missed the IPL and county season thus far). Concerns about his bowling, particularly at the end? Yes. But he can still do a job.
The one selection that does confuse me is Hartley as the reserve spinner. I don't know what's up with that.
Alfie says 'the loser of England /Australia might be in a spot of trouble', indeed. If England lose that one and beat Namibia + Oman, and Scotland do likewise (which is a very plausible set of results), then England/Scotland's place in the Super Eight will be decided by NRR.
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Hard to see anything other than a comfortble India victory today
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That said, Ireland have to ability to cause an upset.
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Duty281 wrote:England were big favourites. That top five, plus Moeen/LL/Jordan/Wood (if necessary), to get under 11 an over for 10 overs on a tiny ground wouldn't have been much of an obstacle. Scotland's bowling attack isn't bad, but it's quite a few levels below the best teams, and the ball being wet would have made it harder to grip. Obviously, Scotland weren't completely out of it either, but England would have been confident.
I'm not a fan of DLS in either 20 or 50 over cricket, but especially not 20 over cricket. I'd do away with DLS entirely in both formats and if a game gets rained off then it gets rained off, though perhaps more reserve days could be factored in e.g. why can't England and Scotland try and complete the game today?
I'm fine with Jordan's selection. He had a very good franchise winter, though should be remembered he's likely in the squad because Overton is injured and Woakes is on bereavement leave (this is why he missed the IPL and county season thus far). Concerns about his bowling, particularly at the end? Yes. But he can still do a job.
The one selection that does confuse me is Hartley as the reserve spinner. I don't know what's up with that.
Alfie says 'the loser of England /Australia might be in a spot of trouble', indeed. If England lose that one and beat Namibia + Oman, and Scotland do likewise (which is a very plausible set of results), then England/Scotland's place in the Super Eight will be decided by NRR.
Only get reserve days if it's gonna effect India's chances of winning Duty, cmon now...
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A real shame re: Overton's injury, he's become quite a good T20 player. Agree on Jordan, considering injuries he's fine in the side. Offers a lot in the field and down the order with the bat, and can be fine with the ball. Oft forgotten he was drafted into the XI for the Semi Final and Final at the last minute in our tournament victory, and did a sterling job (his semi final figures not reflective of his work, got Sharma/Kohli in his first spell which was key).
I think I would consider Topley for Wood in future games...I'd like to see a specialist new ball bowler and think we miss that left arm option. Also think in these conditions Wood's extra pace might be a hinderance, especially with short straight boundaries (he doesn't really have a slower ball like Archer does).
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Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Duty281 wrote:England were big favourites. That top five, plus Moeen/LL/Jordan/Wood (if necessary), to get under 11 an over for 10 overs on a tiny ground wouldn't have been much of an obstacle. Scotland's bowling attack isn't bad, but it's quite a few levels below the best teams, and the ball being wet would have made it harder to grip. Obviously, Scotland weren't completely out of it either, but England would have been confident.
I'm not a fan of DLS in either 20 or 50 over cricket, but especially not 20 over cricket. I'd do away with DLS entirely in both formats and if a game gets rained off then it gets rained off, though perhaps more reserve days could be factored in e.g. why can't England and Scotland try and complete the game today?
I'm fine with Jordan's selection. He had a very good franchise winter, though should be remembered he's likely in the squad because Overton is injured and Woakes is on bereavement leave (this is why he missed the IPL and county season thus far). Concerns about his bowling, particularly at the end? Yes. But he can still do a job.
The one selection that does confuse me is Hartley as the reserve spinner. I don't know what's up with that.
Alfie says 'the loser of England /Australia might be in a spot of trouble', indeed. If England lose that one and beat Namibia + Oman, and Scotland do likewise (which is a very plausible set of results), then England/Scotland's place in the Super Eight will be decided by NRR.
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A real shame re: Overton's injury, he's become quite a good T20 player. Agree on Jordan, considering injuries he's fine in the side. Offers a lot in the field and down the order with the bat, and can be fine with the ball. Oft forgotten he was drafted into the XI for the Semi Final and Final at the last minute in our tournament victory, and did a sterling job (his semi final figures not reflective of his work, got Sharma/Kohli in his first spell which was key).
I think I would consider Topley for Wood in future games...I'd like to see a specialist new ball bowler and think we miss that left arm option. Also think in these conditions Wood's extra pace might be a hinderance, especially with short straight boundaries (he doesn't really have a slower ball like Archer does).
Very true. Remember India/Bangladesh from the last T20 World Cup? Rain forced them off, Bangladesh were well ahead on DLS at the time, then the umpires got the players out way too soon, and Bangladesh lost Litton Das, who was doing superbly (60 off 27), after he slipped over on the wet ground and was run out. India went on to win.
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India's team looking really stacked. Ireland's team looking much the same as it often does.
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The ball was doing lots early, but the Irish kept trying to slog every ball, which was a mad approach. Curious to see Bumrah held back until the 6th over.
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Maybe 60 is the best they can hope for...
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Still, Ireland got to 97 so not the lowest score in the tournament
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Little to get 5 for 7 in two overs to put India under severe pressure?
India will get this by 12 overs in reality.
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PNG v Uganda and Australia v Oman in the small hours.
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Also ICC - holds games in New York at 10:30am on a weekday to cater for Indian TV, whilst putting it behind a paywall channel nobody watches in the US
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Let's face it, the ICC couldn't organise a prayer in a mosque. On a Friday. During Ramadan.
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Duty281 wrote:Comfortable for India. The tournament not really sparked into life yet.
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The contrast between how comfortably India disposed of Ireland and how uncomfortably England struggled against Scotland was all too noticeable.
I'm not telling Buttler to pack the cases but I'm not telling him to order the champagne either.
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I do worry for England though, as stated previously, I do not see them as a very balanced side and have never been convinced with Buttler as captain. I just do not feel he makes good on field decisions, especially when under pressure.
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PNG were bowled out for 77, though Uganda didn't look like they were chasing it at 6/3 and 26/5, before Riazat Ali Shah steered them home with 33, the only person to score above 15 in the game.
And Australia beat Oman, though perhaps not as convincingly as they would have liked. Australia made 164/5, a very steady 50 from Warner and a much more aggressive one from Stoinis, and Oman fell 39 runs short, although they weren't bowled out, to their credit.
USA v Pakistan at 16:30 today, followed by Namibia/Scotland at 20:00, which I think is a new start time as this tournament tries to catch us out.
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The showpiece India v Pakistan game is in New York on Sunday. There's no way it can be moved with 30,000 + expected at the ground. There are five other games scheduled to be played in New York. Once the tournament gets to the Super Eights, there are no further games in the USA.
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The outfield is arguably a bigger issue though. That can't be changed, not only does it look dangerous for fielders, it's also stopping the ball dead, making it absurdly difficult to hit 4s along the ground.
The USA leg should've just been played in Dallas at Grand Prairie.
I am looking forward to watching Virat's running between the wickets on that New York outfield though. He is insanely good at turning dots in singles, 1s into 2s, etc. On a ground where that could be match defining, I'm hoping he goes nuclear with trying to score without hitting boundaries.
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Some very good death bowling from Ali Khan and overall from Netravalkar. USA's fielding was initially impressive, but there were a few lapses as the innings wore on.
USA not out of it, but chasing this v Shaheen, Rauf, Naseem and Amir is a hell of an ask.
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I'm a big fan of Shaheen turning himself into a lower order 6 hitter. A lot of fun.
That must've been such a special day for Ali Khan. Bowling so well to his birth country, whilst representing the country he's lived in for 15 years. Great stuff.
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94/1 after 12.
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Namibia batting first against Scotland after winning the toss. Important game in England's group that one.
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15 needed off the last, with Haris Rauf to bowl it.
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It's going to the second super over of the tournament. Already!
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